Adjustment of lifetime risks of space radiation-induced cancer by the healthy worker effect and cancer misclassification
Background. The healthy worker effect (HWE) is a source of bias in occupational studies of mortality among workers caused by use of comparative disease rates based on public data, which include mortality of unhealthy members of the public who are screened out of the workplace. For the US astronaut c...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Heliyon |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844015302942 |